# Worse place to live: the musical theatre universe, or the DC comics Universe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213 "2010-07-01T17:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/21 "2010-07-02T18:08:21Z")
I picked musicaltheaterverse, but ONLY because you specified musical theater in the Buffyverse, where the songs actually serve the plots and are entertaining (as opposed to musicals which need 5 minutes of song to express a concept like, “today I am sad”.) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/22 "2010-07-02T18:17:48Z")
> [@iftheresaway](#): > > I picked musicaltheaterverse, but ONLY because you specified musical theater in the Buffyverse, where the songs actually serve the plots and are entertaining (as opposed to musicals which need 5 minutes of song to express a concept like, “today I am sad”.) I was unclear. I meant only that the rules of the musical theatre universe are like the rules in the Buffy musical episode: that strong emotions prompt the singing, that music comes from nowhere the singer can see, and that everyone can sing & dance passably while in the influence of the magic. But the MTU is not the Buffyverse. Which is good, because of all the freaking demons thereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/23 "2010-07-02T18:21:14Z")
I don’t see a difference between getting shot in the head and being a vanilla in the DC universe. I’ve got a song in my heart and I’m ready for love. Come on with the rain give me the muscial universe. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/24 "2010-07-02T18:22:11Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Well, let’s check. Think of your first love, who, all those years ago, ripped out your heart and ate it in front of you. > > Did a trombone start playing? Did a spotlight appear? Did clever rhymes immediately come to mind? You don’t know gay men very well, do you? We’re talking full orchestra, soft pink gel, complete operatic aria in fluent Italian. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/25 "2010-07-02T18:25:32Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I don’t see a difference between getting shot in the head and being a vanilla in the DC universe. > > I’ve got a song in my heart and I’m ready for love. Come on with the rain give me the muscial universe. Oh, I expect living in Metropolis is safer than living in Detroit. Apart from the Chuck Austen run, there’s not a lot of street crime. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/26 "2010-07-02T18:26:06Z")
I’ll take the Musical Theater Universe. I figure a straight guy could do very well there, scoring with the ladies-wise, for lack of competition if nothing else! 😃 Plus, I’d be able to sing the way I _would like to_, not the way I _can_. Maybe with Harve Presnell’s voice, since he isn’t using it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/27 "2010-07-02T18:38:00Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > You don’t know gay men very well, do you? We’re talking full orchestra, soft pink gel, complete operatic aria in fluent Italian. I don’t keep track of who is and is not gay. It would be faintly disturbing if I did, no? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/28 "2010-07-02T19:46:21Z")
Musical Theater Universe. Heck, I can already dance and sing, so having the music come out of nowhere when the emotion strikes me sounds like a win-win situation to me! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/29 "2010-07-02T20:25:15Z")
With a werewolf there it will be a lot like the Buffyverse. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/30 "2010-07-02T20:26:17Z")
Except I’m the good kind of werewolf. I pay for my chickens and everything! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/31 "2010-07-02T20:35:16Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Except I’m the good kind of werewolf. I pay for my chickens and everything! I was not aware of your lycanthropy. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/32 "2010-07-02T20:36:37Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I was not aware of your lycanthropy. Unaware that [Angua von Überwald](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch#Sergeant_Angua_von_.C3.9Cberwald) is a werewolf? For shame! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/33 "2010-07-02T20:38:56Z")
Why no Marvel Comics Universe option?! ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/34 "2010-07-02T20:40:50Z")
Your poll was a bit confusing Skald. I picked DC Comic Universe, because I assumed you were asking about the worst place to live as title implied. So, yeah, as lame as it is, I’ll take the musical theatre universe. There’s less random dying there. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/35 "2010-07-02T20:49:59Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Your poll was a bit confusing Skald. I picked DC Comic Universe, because I assumed you were asking about the worst place to live as title implied. > > So, yeah, as lame as it is, I’ll take the musical theatre universe. There’s less random dying there. Rhymers are assholes. Really, you should read the RhymerFaq, it makes it all perfectly clear. > [@Angua](#): > > Unaware that [Angua von Überwald](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch#Sergeant_Angua_von_.C3.9Cberwald) is a werewolf? For shame! 😉 Rhymers do not know everything. We have minions to look up what we need to know, as needed, as most of our energy is expended in making chicken casseroles. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why no Marvel Comics Universe option?! Fool of an mutie! Because then I’d have had to come up with something else on the musical side. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/36 "2010-07-02T20:51:35Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Rhymers do not know everything. We have minions to look up what we need to know, as needed, as most of our energy is expended in making chicken casseroles. This makes me a minion, doesn’t it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/37 "2010-07-02T20:53:08Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > This makes me a minion, doesn’t it? 😉 The quickness of your wit is 47% of why I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/38 "2010-07-02T20:54:36Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The quickness of your wit is 47% of why I love you. And the other 53%? You started this… Now you have to finish it! ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/39 "2010-07-02T20:55:44Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > And the other 53%? > > You started this… Now you have to finish it! You should be a bit more careful with the questions you ask. You might not like the answers! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213/40 "2010-07-02T20:57:05Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > You should be a bit more careful with the questions you ask. You might not like the answers! :eek: Now I’m worried! I’m hoping its for my ability to provide the right memory nudge at the right time, my memory and cookies… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-place-to-live-the-musical-theatre-universe-or-the-dc-comics-universe/545213.md?page=3)